Tremadog Festival

by Mark Reeves Mar/2007This news story has been read 1,463 times

almost veg'-free

As someone who spends a lot of my working days at Tremadog, I have to
say that I have really noticed the good work that many many people
have put into cleaning this crag. Where once there was basically
jungle now there is bare rock, ready to climb.

No longer do you need a machete to climb many of the routes instead
there are now many other route other than the 10 routes that most
people usually climb that are well worth seeking out. The current
state of the routes are currently online at tremadog.wetpaint.com

The clearing on the vegetation culminated this weekend (24/25th March) in a festival
of climbing, and further cleaning to snip off any spring growth. The
event was attended by well over 70 climbers who climbed over 60
routes at the crag gardening as they went. The weekend was supported
by the Eric Jones, BMC, V12 Outdoors, Ground Up, Joe Browns, DMM and Plas y Brenin.

The weekend was fantastic and extremely well organised by Mike Raine
ably assisted by his partner Janet Somner. Stu Macaleese one of the
UK's finest alpine mountaineers gave a slide show of his recent
exploits whilst the 'gardeners' relaxed with some fine Purple Moose
Ale supplied free by the BMC.

As an event it could be more inclusive as climbers literally climbed
all the routes from the easiest Diff's to the hardest walls. One
attendee James McHaffie even tried for the first on-sight ascent of
Strawberries, although only given E6 the route has only been flashed after abseil inspection once (see photos at the link below).

All in a great place to spend the weekend, it would be great for
Tremadog and North Wales if this was to become a annual event.